The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

No, you accept the world, and you make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.

Its not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens you.